The Court of Justice on the rules about public access to documents, in a case concerning the request for access to a medicinal product's MA file. The Court excluded the application of the general presumption of confidentiality.

Trade marks cannot be declared wholly or partially invalid for lack of sufficient clarity and precision with regard to the specification of goods and services. Applying to register a mark with no intention to use, or intending to use it only for some goods and services may amount to bad faith.

The Italian Supreme Court ruled in a new plant variety infringement matter, confirming the Court of Appeal’s conclusions that the variety had been infringed through the cultivation of the plant without the prior authorisation of the IP holders. The decision includes an interesting analysis of Courts duties and powers regarding invalidity claims of new varieties and IP titles in general.

Transfer of personal data towards third countries: the AG suggests that Commission Decision 2010/87/EU, establishing standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to processors established in third countries, is compliant with Art. 7, 8 and 47 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights, as it includes mechanisms ensuring that unlawful transfers can be suspended or prohibited, thus ensuring protection of the data subjects’ fundamental rights.

The Italian Supreme Court on legal standing in patent invalidity proceedings: it is mandatory that also subjects who transferred their rights on the patent be joined to invalidity proceedings, since they are recorded in the register as owners, pursuant to art. 122, paragraph 4, IPC.

Copyright exhaustion does not apply to e-books, whose resale is to be considered as a communication to the public – pursuant to art. 3 of Directive EC 2001/29 - not as a means of distribution of the work – under art. 4 of the same directive.

A mark including a superlative found infringed by a mark with the same superlative and other aspects similar to the earlier mark; the bankruptcy of a defendant while a trial is pending involves the inadmissibility of monetary claims against that party within the pending case.

AG Campos Sanchez-Bordona suggests a distinction between electronic intermediaries based on their actual involvement: exempting from liability custodians carrying out ancillary activities, provided they do not intervene in the infringement knowingly or with reasonable grounds to be aware of it, whilst not exempting subjects practically involved in putting third parties vendors’ goods on the market.